Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis